Rabbit Who?

This is what I found in my bed this morning.  I'm not sure whether to be amused or creeped out!  Thanks, Daughter #2!!!

To Flush or Not to Flush

That is no longer the question.  We got a new toilet in the kids' bathroom.  It is awesome.  Flushing our old toilet was a nearly minute-long suspenseful ordeal of waiting to see if everything would go down or not, with hand hovering over the plunger in case it wouldn't.  Which meant for most of my kids, they wouldn't flush.  It was too scary.  That resulted in me getting mad and yelling "flush the toilet!!!" whenever I went in there.  Gross.

This new toilet flushes in about 5 seconds and everything gets flushed.  In the words of my son,"that is the most awesome toilet sound I've ever heard."  Agreed.

Uncle Howard

Yesterday afternoon my husband's uncle Howard passed away.  He was 85 years old and had some health problems as well as dementia.  Over the past year, our family was blessed to get to know Howard and his wife, Connie.  Our children loved to visit them because they usually got a treat and because Howard was so funny.  We will all remember "The Mean Bean", Howard kissing my hand after I said I thought I was a good homemaker, the kids giving Howard five and him pretending that it hurt, Howard asking the girls if they had a boyfriend and saying that their dad should be their boyfriend because they are too young for a real boyfriend, Howard singing Yankee Doodle and other songs and mangling the lyrics because he couldn't remember them, and many other great memories.  We will sure miss Uncle Howard!

We Will Now Return To Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

Well, I'm back to my usual unsleeping.  It is 3:08 a.m. and I'm still unable to fall asleep.  This is sure getting old, I tell you.

Wonder of Wonders...

I slept the whole night through last night.  I didn't have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep.  I didn't have excessively strange dreams that woke me up feeling disturbed.  My legs didn't ache.  My feet weren't cold.  I actually feel quite rested.  I honestly can't remember when the last time I woke up feeling this good was.  Maybe I'll actually get something accomplished today because of it!!!!  Hooray for quality sleep!

Rainy Days and Mondays

I happen to love rainy days and Mondays.  I also like the Carpenter's song that talks about them.

This will be a whatever-comes-to-mind sort of post.

This Mother's Day was the best one so far.  I got breakfast in bed, numerous cards, pictures and artwork, a lovely dinner made by my husband and cleaned up by my kids and I got to go to Relief Society for a great lesson.  It was a great day all around.

I made an awesome gate with my younger brother yesterday to keep the chickens out of the garden.

I'm reading a book I haven't read before and have 3 or 4 more lined up after I finish the first one.  I get sort of a thrill when I start a new book.

Our garden is doing well and the fruit and nut trees are in bloom.

We are getting 3-4 eggs a day from our cute chickens.

I serve with wonderful leaders in Young Womens.  Girls' Camp will be so much fun this summer.

I get to be in charge of tracing the pattern of a teddy bear we are making for girls' camp for our service project.  We need to make 34 bears.  That's 34 patterns to trace.  I'd better get tracing!

This week is busy with activities we don't usually have.  Besides the usual Young Mens, Young Womens, and Activity Days for 3 daughters on 2 different days, we have a Meet the Author open house for Daughter #1 on Tuesday, a birthday lunch for our Young Womens president on Wednesday, a spring chorus concert for Daughter #1 on Thursday evening, the second grade dance preformance for Daughter #3 on Friday, the father and sons campout on Friday and the Heber Valley Campground open house on Saturday for YW leaders.  Yikes!

I'm going to have 2 kids at the junior high school next school year.  That is so weird.

My husband completed a half marathon 2 Saturdays ago at Thanksgiving Point.  It was his first race like that.  He came in at just over 2 hours.  We were all there at the finish line to cheer him on.  He was pretty much out of commission the rest of the day.

I'm very grateful for a working computer and a husband who "knows from computers."  Most of the recent problems with the computer were due in part to my "non-technicalness."  To say I was relieved that the problems were resolved is putting it lightly.

Auction

Last night our ward held an auction/fundraiser to help the scouts raise money for their camps this year.  It was $10 per family for the spaghetti dinner.  Ward members donated items and services to be auctioned off.  We donated 1 dozen fresh eggs from our chickens.  That went for $15.  The item that went for the most money was a signed Jimmer Fredette jersey.  It went for $600.  Insane.

My husband bid on and won a free accordion lesson from a ward member.  Our next door neighbor happens to have an accordion, so he can practice.  This should be interesting.